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A.I. Console
A.I. Console by Philippe Starck for Kartell, 75 x 24 x 88 cm in recycled illy coffee-pod polymer.
750 × 880 × 240 mm
2023
4 kg
Approx. $710 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
Official product information
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Overview
A.I. Console is a console designed by Philippe Starck for Kartell, with a central leg. Kartell's page says it leaves an uncluttered yet characterful mark on entrances and hallways. The product id is 05907GR in Gray, and code 5907 appears on the data sheet.
Construction
The sheet's material is a recycled thermoplastic technopolymer, post-industrial, obtained from illy coffee pods. It adds that the product is made with the recovery of waste plastic from illycaffe iperespresso capsules.
Specifications
- Dimensions (code 5907): 75 x 24 x 88 cm
- Weight: 4.0 kg
- Colours: 4 listed
Story
From coffee pods to a console
The data sheet carries the title A.I. CONSOLE 2023, credits the design to Philippe Starck powered by illy, and marks it with a New sustainable material badge. A second raw material, it says, is made from post-industrial waste pods that are ground and returned to granule form, then injected into the Kartell mould. It states that reaching the required quality took almost two years.
A central leg
The page describes the console as a unique piece of furniture that takes up the lines already recognisable in the A.I. family, styled with a central leg, and it presents the piece as an idea of elegance of artificial intelligence in search of the minimum.
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Collection
A.I.
The A.I. family by Philippe Starck for Kartell: chairs, Lite, stools, console and lounge chair made with generative design and recycled technopolymer.
